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Patna,(BiharTimes): Post-CAG report Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) continues to put pressure on the Nitish Kumar government in Bihar.
Party chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, while talking to mediapersons in New Delhi on Thursday, demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe over a Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report that claims that huge sums of money have been grossly misused in Bihar. |
Lalu chose to pay the opposition back in the same coin. He asked as to why there should be no CBI probe in Bihar if it is on the basis of CAG reports that many central ministers had to go to jail. After all the CAG is a constitutional body.
He said now an excuse is being forwarded that the Public Accounts Committee would look into the CAG report. But they should know that when false allegations were levelled against he himself in fodder scam, the matter too was before the Public Accounts Committee. Then some other logic was given, he added.
The former chief minister and railway minister alleged that an attempt is on to throttle the media in Bihar so that nobody can exposed the loot in Bihar. Thus, his party demands a CBI probe into the whole matter.
As highlighted the CAG report said detailed contingent (DC) bills of Rs 25, 575 crore had not been submitted till 2011. Besides, it had exposed 1,034 cases of defalcation, misappropriation, loss and theft involving Rs.409.15 crore till March 2011 in different departments of Bihar.
The CAG report reportedly highlights a declining trend of submission of DC bills over the years from 26.08 percent in 2002-03 to 0.23 percent in 2010-11.
Meanwhile, speaking on the latest development in Delhi Lalu said that India is not Pakistan and the people have full faith in the army. “It is not Pakistan where the army calls the shot, but India where democracy is quite strongly rooted.” He sees a sinister design of tarnishing the image of army in India.
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